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Snapchat will face 20 years of independent monitoring after
settling charges alleged by the Federal Trade Commission that the
ephemeral messaging and video service had misrepresented itself
to consumers.

Though Snapchat has advertised that its messages “disappear
forever,” the FTC remarked that there were “several simple
ways that recipients could save snaps indefinitely,” according
to the settlement -- including with third-party apps and
screenshots.

Additionally, the commission took issue with the fact that
Snapchat claimed it did not collect personal user data -- though
a security breach of 4.6 million users’
names and phone numbers earlier this year clearly illustrates
that it had.